On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:17 am, Joseph Feigon wrote: > As a long time Mandrake user, I am continually pleased > with the contributions to Expert, and have had > numerous questions answered by the talent and resource > of everyone's contributions. > > I am experiencing a minor challenge with an 8.2 > production workstation. I am running a stock > 2.4.19-16mdksmp on a Dell Precision 410, loaded with > multiple SCSI drives, video capture, and a single IDE > interface. When I added a SCSI CDRW drive to the > system, the IDE CDROM was no longer recognized on > boot, and I haven't been able to figure out how to > configure it. Ripping and Burning is so much faster > with two separate drives, and the fact that one is > sitting idle, is quite frustrating. Before the > addition of the SCSI CDRW, /dev/cdrom pointed to the > IDE connected CDROM. > Character devices: > 1 mem > 2 pty/m%d > 3 pty/s%d > 4 tts/%d > 5 cua/%d > 6 lp > 7 vcs > 10 misc > 14 sound > 21 sg > 29 fb > 81 video_capture > 128 ptm > 136 pts/%d > 162 raw > > Block devices: > 1 ramdisk > 2 fd > 8 sd > 9 md > 11 sr > 65 sd > 66 sd > > And under /dev, cdrom is setup as follows: > cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0 > where cdrom0 -> ../scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd. > > So, how do I make use of the IDE CDROM? There are no > entries in the /dev directory pointing to any /dev/h*, > as the entire system is SCSI, sans the IDE based > CDROM. > > Thanks in advance for the help! > > Joseph > >
It is unclear from your description if the IDE is a CDRW or a simple IDE. In the first case, the system would use ide-scsi to recognize it as a scsi device because cdrecord looks only at scsi devices. Actually from time to time there is a debate about defaulting to ide-scsi for all CD/dvd devices, but there are always a few cheaply made dvds which won't work under scsi emulation. But for your purposes since it isn't a cheap DVD, this solution is probably preferable: OK find out from yout boot screen where that furshlugginer IDE device is. For demo purposes I assume it is /dev/hda Go to Mandrake Control Center -> Boot -> Boot configuration and put hda=ide-scsi in your append line (for all linux boots except failsafe) YES THIS WORKS FOR ORDINARY CD drives as well as CDRWs. now boot and open a terminal su to root # cdrecord --scanbus should tell you where it is You may need to make up /dev entries for it and a line in /etc/fstab You already have a model to follow in the cdrom0 entry Civileme > > > > > > > ===== > Joseph Feigon > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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